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A Study of the Winston Red: The Smithsonian's New Fancy Red Diamond

news.ycombinator.com Gabriela A. Farfan 2025-10-13 09:13:14

ABSTRACT Red diamonds are among the rarest gems on Earth, especially Fancy red diamonds that are pure red and unmodified by brown, orange, or purple. At 2.33 ct, the Winston Red diamond is the fifth-largest Fancy red diamond known to exist and the only Fancy red diamond on public exhibit. On April 1, 2025, it was unveiled in a new exhibit at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. This is the first scientific and historical study conducted on this noteworthy stone.

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UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs

news.ycombinator.com Lindsay Clark 2025-10-13 13:57:50

UK universities and colleges have signed a framework worth up to £9.86 million ($13.33 million) with Oracle to use its controversial Java SE Universal Subscription model, in exchange for a "waiver of historic fees due for any institutions who have used Oracle Java since 2023." Jisc, a membership organization that runs procurement for higher and further education establishments in the UK, said it had signed an agreement to purchase the new subscription licenses after consultation with members.

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Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305M

news.ycombinator.com Ashley Capoot 2025-10-13 13:45:58

23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki speaks during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing in Washington, D.C., on June 10, 2025. Anne Wojcicki, the co-founder and former CEO of 23andMe, has regained control over the embattled genetic testing company after her new nonprofit, TTAM Research Institute, outbid Regeneron Pharmaceuticals , the company announced Friday. TTAM will acquire substantially all of 23andMe's assets for $305 million, including its Personal Genome Service and Re

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Rethinking Losses for Diffusion Bridge Samplers

news.ycombinator.com Sanokowski 2025-10-13 13:00:23

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Liquid Glass – WWDC25 [video]

news.ycombinator.com Apple Inc. 2025-10-09 22:48:47

Liquid Glass is a significant new step and evolution of the look and feel of Apple software. It introduces a flexible, dynamic layer to apps and system experiences across Apple’s ecosystem of products. It builds on learnings from all the way from the Aqua user interface of Mac OS X, through to the realtime blurs of iOS 7, to the fluidity of iPhone X, the flexibility of the Dynamic Island, and the immersive interface of visionOS. Building off these learnings, rather than trying to simply recreat

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The International Standard for Identifying Postal Items

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-12 02:02:23

The Universal Postal Union's S10 standard, in all its glory Have you ever received a parcel from overseas? I did recently, from Switzerland! Looking at the envelope, I realised the format of the tracking number ( UT038926726CH ) was in a very similar (if not identical) format to ones I'd used frequently here in the UK. I'd been receiving emails from Royal Mail about the parcel, so I just presumed that there was some data-sharing agreement in place with Swiss Post and Royal Mail had just given

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Filedb: Disk Based Key-Value Store Inspired by Bitcask

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 13:45:03

filedb A key-value store inspired by Bitcask. FileDB is a Zig-implementation of Bitcask by Riak1 paper. FileDB stores record metadata in a log-structured hashtable and parallely keeps 1 disk file open for inserting records in append-only mode. On restarts or MAX_FILE_REACHED , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading only . , the disk file is rotated and all the oldfiles are kept open for reading . A compaction process running every config.compactionInterval se

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The Tech Job Meltdown

news.ycombinator.com Professor Axelrod 2025-10-13 13:22:54

He wrote me a prescription; he said “You are depressed I'm glad you came to see me to get this off your chest Come back and see me later, next patient please Send in another victim of industrial disease” Industrial Disease, Dire Straits The Google campus doesn’t look as friendly as it used to. (this ia actually from Bartertown in Mad Max 3 - you can see Thunderdome in the middle) Since the start of 2023, more than half-a-million tech workers have been laid off. This isn’t the impact of COV

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Ahead of Protests, Waymo Scales Back Robotaxi Service Nationwide

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-13 10:59:10

Waymo will temporarily limit robotaxi service in all of its nationwide markets, the company said Friday, as US cities prepare for a wave of protests of federal immigration policies and law enforcement and military crackdowns on demonstrators. The Alphabet subsidiary will stop service in Los Angeles altogether. Waymo spokesperson Sandy Karp confirmed the service pause and adjustments but declined to comment further. There is no indication how long the service changes will last. The adjustments

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24 Amazon Prime Perks You Might Not Be Using (2025)

wired.com Louryn Strampe 2025-10-13 11:32:00

It’s common knowledge that a Prime membership gets you free two-day shipping. But there are Amazon Prime perks that make the service more worthwhile—and considering the cost of a yearly membership, you're doing yourself a disservice if you aren't taking advantage of all of them. Below, we've listed some of the perks you should be using as an Amazon Prime member. Arguably, these incentives alone aren't worth the cost of a membership, but chances are at least one of them will come in handy. Amazo

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Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s AI hiring spree

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-10-13 11:16:24

is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. AI researchers have recently been asking themselves a version of the question, “Is that really Zuck?” As first reported by Bloomberg, the Meta CEO has been personally asking top AI talent to join his new “superintelligence” AI lab and reboot Llama. His recruiting process typically goes like this: a cold outreach via email or WhatsApp that cites the recruit’s work history and reque

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Beyond GPT architecture: Why Google’s Diffusion approach could reshape LLM deployment

venturebeat.com David Chen 2025-10-13 13:48:11

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Last month, along with a comprehensive suite of new AI tools and innovations, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion. This experimental research model uses a diffusion-based approach to generate text. Traditionally, large language models (LLMs) like GPT and Gemini itself have relied on autoregression, a step-by-step approach where each

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How to watch new Apple TV+ movie starring Sydney Sweeney and Julianne Moore

9to5mac.com Benjamin Mayo 2025-10-13 13:32:20

Echo Valley is a new movie streaming worldwide on Apple TV+ from today. The R-rated thriller stars Sydney Sweeney and Julianne More, playing mother and daughter roles. If you’ve never used Apple’s streaming service before, here’s how to get started. Echo Valley is available to watch exclusively through the Apple TV app, which is the home of Apple TV+ streaming service. Alongside movies to buy or rent, the TV+ tab includes a catalog of almost 300 original TV shows and movies to watch. That libr

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Apple launches Service Program for M2 Mac mini power issues

9to5mac.com Chance Miller 2025-10-13 15:51:54

Apple has launched a new Service Program today for a “No Power Issue” affecting a small number of M2 Mac mini users. Affected users are eligible to have their Mac mini repaired at no charge. Apple says that the problem impacts a “very small percentage” of M2 Mac mini units that were manufactured between June and November 2024. The company explains: Apple has determined that a very small percentage of Mac mini (2023) devices with the M2 chip may no longer power on. Affected devices were manufa

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Sonos' cheapest smart speaker is still the one I recommend most - especially when it's on sale

zdnet.com Jada Jones 2025-10-13 10:01:00

Jada Jones/ZDNET The Sonos Roam 2 is on sale for $134, $45 off its original price. According to Sonos, this deal is valid until June 15, 2025. In addition to a pair of trusty headphones for private listening when you're out in public, you need a portable speaker to keep the music bumping when you're outside grilling, swimming, or walking. A speaker to have inside for jamming out while you're cleaning, cooking, or hosting friends is a bonus, and one that's stylish enough to go from your outdoor

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U.S. Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels

news.ycombinator.com Patty Nieberg 2025-10-13 15:06:43

Four senior executives of tech giants like Meta and Palantir are being sworn into the Army Reserve as direct-commissioned officers at the unusually high rank of lieutenant colonel as part of a new program to recruit private-sector experts to speed up tech adoption. The Army calls the program to recruit Silicon Valley executives Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps. One of the executives, Andrew Bosworth of Meta (formerly Facebook) posted on X that the “201” monicker was a nod t

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RISC-V in AI and HPC Part 1: Per Aspera Ad Astra?

news.ycombinator.com Anton Shilov 2025-10-10 02:27:50

//php echo do_shortcode('[responsivevoice_button voice="US English Male" buttontext="Listen to Post"]') ?> —First in a three-part series Introduced in 2014, the RISC-V instruction set architecture has been evolving at a pace that Arm and x86 ISAs have never experienced. Initially, RISC-V cores were used solely for microcontrollers and applications that did not require high performance, but rather benefited from low cost and low power. Since RISC-V is an open-source architecture, it quickly gai

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How the Alzheimer's Research Scandal Set Back Treatment 16 Years (2022)

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-13 13:53:13

In 2006, a landmark study in Nature identified a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease. For almost 16 years, this study influenced how scientists approached Alzheimer’s and how major research grants were given. But in the summer of 2022, the editors of Nature issued a chilling disclaimer. There was concern regarding the images that accompanied the article. An investigation was underway, and readers were urged to “use caution” when relying on the results. A whistleblower had come forward and sa

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The Best ‘Final Fantasy’ References in Its Huge ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Crossover

gizmodo.com James Whitbrook 2025-10-13 15:00:23

Today one of the biggest sets in Magic: The Gathering‘s recent history makes its grand arrival at last: Final Fantasy, the first of Magic‘s at-times-controversial “Universes Beyond” crossovers with other franchises to be given the full standard-legal treatment. It’s a marriage of two of gaming’s most beloved fantasy realms, and with absolute legions of fans of both Magic and Final Fantasy to please, it has to hit the highlights and mechanical flavoring of 16 mainline game’s worth of viable cards

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This New ‘Superman’ Spot Tells Us the Movie’s Gonna Cut to the Chase About Clark and Lois

gizmodo.com Sabina Graves 2025-10-13 15:45:31

There might finally be an answer about whether or not Lois Lane (Rachel Brosnahan) knows if Clark Kent (David Corenswet) is really the caped superhero in red trunks, and it’s slipped into a quick teaser DC Studios just unleashed for Superman. While previous iterations of Superman’s love interest may have fallen for the glasses trick, the idea that being bespectacled could hide the Man of Steel’s true identity has always been a ridiculous notion. Director James Gunn has seemingly side-stepped th

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Do reasoning models really “think” or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-10-13 19:02:22

Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Apple’s machine-learning group set off a rhetorical firestorm earlier this month with its release of “The Illusion of Thinking,” a 53-page research paper arguing that so-called large reasoning models (LRMs) or reasoning large language models (reasoning LLMs) such as OpenAI’s “o” series and Google’s Gemini-2.5 Pro and Flash Thinking don’t a

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This Android notification exploit could trick you into opening some very unfriendly links (Updated)

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 18:19:58

Joe Maring / Android Authority TL;DR A bug in Android notifications can cause the “Open link” button to open a different link than the one displayed. Hidden characters in the messages can confuse the system, causing it to open a link that only makes up a part of the one in the displayed notification. Until Google issues a fix, it’s safest to avoid using the “Open link” button and open links manually in the app. Update, June 13, 2025 (5:19 PM ET): Google has reached out to Android Authority w

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Anker SOLIX EverFrost 2 40L electric cooler drops to its all-time low price

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-10-13 19:59:36

Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority I have actually been using the Anker SOLIX EverFrost 2 40L electric cooler for some time, and I love it. I know it’s a bit pricey, but discounts come from time to time. Right now, you can get it for its record-low price, saving you $200. Buy the Anker SOLIX EverFrost 2 40L electric cooler for just $699.99 ($200 off) This offer is available from Amazon. It is a “limited time deal,” which means the deal should end relatively soon. This also makes it an automat

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HomeKit Weekly: Protect your wood floors with a HomeKit-enabled water leak sensor from FIBARO

9to5mac.com Bradley C 2025-10-13 19:00:00

Water damage is one of my biggest fears as a homeowner. With hardwood floors throughout my house, even a small leak could turn into a massive repair bill and a huge inconvenience. A slow drip from a sink can quickly become thousands of dollars in damage for your floors and cabinets. Thankfully, with a HomeKit-enabled flood sensor from FIBARO, you can catch leaks early and avoid a major headache. The FIBARO water leak sensor is one of my oldest HomeKit devices I am using, but it still works great

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Chart shows iOS, iPadOS, and macOS release timing trends over the years

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-13 19:18:10

With WWDC25 wrapping up, the next big milestone on Apple’s calendar is the fall OS release season. And while many already have a mental map of how these rollouts usually go, a new chart making the rounds offers a great visual snapshot of when each OS has landed since 2013. Originally posted by Reddit user alexkaessner, the Datawrapper interactive timeline highlights the usual pattern: Fall Keynote in the first half of September (blue dots), iOS and iPadOS release about a week after that (red do

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New paper pushes back on Apple’s LLM ‘reasoning collapse’ study

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-10-13 19:53:57

Apple’s recent AI research paper, “The Illusion of Thinking”, has been making waves for its blunt conclusion: even the most advanced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) collapse on complex tasks. But not everyone agrees with that framing. Today, Alex Lawsen, a researcher at Open Philanthropy, published a detailed rebuttal arguing that many of Apple’s most headline-grabbing findings boil down to experimental design flaws, not fundamental reasoning limits. The paper also credits Anthropic’s Claude Opus

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Apple begins selling latest M4 MacBook Air models on its refurbished store

9to5mac.com Michael Burkhardt 2025-10-13 19:58:58

Today, Apple has begun selling refurbished configurations of its recently released MacBook Air with M4 chip – with a roughly 15% discount compared to MSRP. This follows the addition of Apple Watch Ultra 2 in Black and M4 Max/M3 Ultra Mac Studio earlier this week. Apple Refurbished Macs are held to a very high quality standard, and more or less look brand new – minus the packaging. All essential components are replaced as part of Apples Refurb program. You even get the same 1 year warranty, and

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Whatever Happened to Sandboxfs?

news.ycombinator.com Julio Merino 2025-10-11 13:37:09

Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and external users alike: Bazel’s poor sandboxing performance on macOS. sandboxfs was a user-space file system designed to efficiently create virtual file hierarchies backed by real files—a faster alternative to the “symlink fore

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Implementing Logic Programming

news.ycombinator.com Sir Whinesalot 2025-10-13 18:32:21

Most of my readers are probably familiar with procedural programming, object-oriented programming (OOP), and functional programming (FP). The majority of top programming languages on all of the language popularity charts (like TIOBE) support all three to some extent. Even if a programmer avoided one or more of those three paradigms like the plague, they’re likely at least aware of them and what they’re about. Or they’re applying one of the paradigms while denying that they’re doing so, like Has

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Limited-Time VPN Deal: Get 76% Off NordVPN + Up to $50 in Amazon Gift Cards

gizmodo.com Gizmodo Deals 2025-10-13 19:15:29

Looking to score big with the world’s #1 VPN? NordVPN is famous for insanely good deals, but this one appeared out of nowhere. If you purchase NordVPN today, you’ll secure a free Amazon gift card. Lock in your privacy and unlock Amazon goodies! We’ll tell you all about the current promotion offering up to 76% off NordVPN, plus an Amazon gift card worth several tens of dollars. Get NordVPN + Amazon Voucher Here NordVPN & Amazon Gift Card Exclusive Deal You might be wondering if such a crazy p

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A Study of the Winston Red: The Smithsonian's New Fancy Red Diamond

UK unis to cough up to £10M on Java to keep Oracle off their backs

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Apple launches Service Program for M2 Mac mini power issues

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U.S. Army bringing in big tech executives as lieutenant colonels

RISC-V in AI and HPC Part 1: Per Aspera Ad Astra?

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Do reasoning models really “think” or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response

This Android notification exploit could trick you into opening some very unfriendly links (Updated)

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Chart shows iOS, iPadOS, and macOS release timing trends over the years

New paper pushes back on Apple’s LLM ‘reasoning collapse’ study

Apple begins selling latest M4 MacBook Air models on its refurbished store

Whatever Happened to Sandboxfs?

Implementing Logic Programming

Limited-Time VPN Deal: Get 76% Off NordVPN + Up to $50 in Amazon Gift Cards

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